Why No Melds?

[Fynlar]

If it's not DoH or DoL gear, I don't really care about what materia offers. :/ For DoHs, materia is *essential* to be able to craft the higher tier stuff.

That and combat gear gets obsoleted so quickly in this game it barely even feels like worth investing in, when you can't just take the materia back out.

The materia melder NPCs are of zero consequence to me because I can meld anything I want myself.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

This early in the patch, we cycle through gear too fast. I'm not going to waste 400k on materia I could sell when I can still clear content without much of a hurdle.

[MrPresident]

Why would you? If you aren't raiding there's no point at all in melding. Your gear will suffice for any content anyway and it will be obsolete in a month or two. Makes way more sense to sell the materia than meld with it.

[Neophyte]

Why would you? If you aren't raiding there's no point at all in melding. Your gear will suffice for any content anyway and it will be obsolete in a month or two. Makes way more sense to sell the materia than meld with it.

Because I still make money without crafting/gathering with also melding my gear. I have an FC house and I settled my glamour last year. Also I am raiding, but if I see that I don't need the money I'll invest in even the slightest upgrades, even if I wouldn't be raiding.
That's what I learned after playing years of RPGs (and also Action games like FPS) where I saved everything up to the last boss and all I got out of it was clearing the game with a big bank account (or high ammount of rare ammunition which got never used in regards of FPS games).

Money is there for to be spent. There are no interest, nor a pension plan in this game, nor does wealth have any impact like in the real world.
Saving Money doesn't make sense until you know that you need or want a specific piece.
Same thing for food and pots. I rather spent my dispensable money on those and use them than to not spent it at all.

Right now I'm at about 15 million. I have 3 months or so now till 3.45 and will likely get some more millions until then. Why in the name of the twelve should I stick to that money?! Money will rain from the sky with 3.45 again anyway, like with every patch.

All I'm saying is: It's no problem to stick 40+ materia V's into your gear within a patch and still come out even or maybe still make a few millions without being a crafter and/or gatherer or selling runs. Take it or leave it.

[FoxyAreku]

Lazy, cheap, or both.

There's no better excuse for it really. Even putting grade 1 2 or 3 materia in is better than leaving it empty.

[Theodric]

Lazy, cheap, or both.

There's no better excuse for it really. Even putting grade 1 2 or 3 materia in is better than leaving it empty.

There's a great excuse actually - materia isn't needed for the vast majority of content in this game. Elemental materia is just 'there' and whilst the other stats are more useful unless someone is tackling high end content then no real incentive to add it to gear. Perhaps if dungeons were more along the lines of Pharos Sirius before it was nerfed then there would be more need for people to make use of materia.

[seraf]

I'm not a rich player and on any given week I might have 2-3 million saved up from selling tomestone mats on the marketboard. But I do at least try with Materia Melds on my main Job that I play. I will use the Grade V if I have enough (but only on fully upgraded gear) so I tend to put Grade IV materia in my gear instead. There's only a 3 stat point difference between IV and V and I can make that up with HQ food.

[Theodric]

I suspect a lot of people simply choose to sell their materia or store it in their retainer's inventories. As it stands there isn't really a major need or incentive to meld materia outside of high end content anyway...and since only a tiny portion of the game's community tackle the aforementioned content...

[Ageofwar]

can't be arsed since the gear I have will be out the window in 3 months and I don't need the extra stats snice I don't do extreme or savage content

[Celef]

The gear gets obsolet to quickly to justify melding materia on it, i'd rather sell them for hundred of thousand gils instead :3